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"The King and the Beggar-maid" is a 16th-century broadside ballad [1] that tells of an African king, Cophetua, and his love for the beggar Penelophon (Shakespearean Zenelophon). Artists and writers have referenced the story, and King Cophetua has become a byword for "a man who falls in love with a woman instantly and proposes marriage immediately".
William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, set in Verona, Italy, features the eponymous protagonists Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.The cast of characters also includes members of their respective families and households; Prince Escalus, the city's ruler, and his kinsman, Count Paris; and various unaffiliated characters such as Friar Laurence and the Chorus.
La Presqu’île (The Peninsula, 1970) is a collection of three short pieces by French writer Julien Gracq that takes its name from its second work, a novella, which is preceded by La Route and followed by Le Roi Cophetua (King Cophetua). The Peninsula and King Cophetua have been published separately in English by Green Integer (2011) [1] and ...
The United Kingdom theatrical release date was April 1. [4] Orlando Bloom starred as Romeo. This production depicts Romeo and his Montague family with white actors, while Juliet and her Capulet family are depicted with black actors. [2] The production was a modernization featuring a Triumph motorcycle and zip-up jackets. [3]
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
The Death of Romeo and Juliet (c.1848), Manchester Art Gallery; Isabella (1848–49), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool [3] Ferdinand Lured by Ariel (1850), Sudley House, Liverpool [4] Christ In The House Of His Parents (1850), Tate Britain, London [5] The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1851), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [6]
Romeo and Juliet is a dramatization of Brooke's translation, and Shakespeare follows the poem closely but adds detail to several major and minor characters (the Nurse and Mercutio in particular). [23] [24] [25]
[1] [2] Burne-Jones first attempted the story in an oil painting of 1861–62 (now in the Tate Gallery, London). [1] He was working out a new composition around 1874 [2] or 1875, [1] and began the painting in earnest in 1881. [2] He worked on it through the winter of 1883–84, declaring it finished in April 1884.